I grew up with a younger brother. I have a cat. I have long hair. I'm quite used to occasionally finding not-so-pleasant additions to my beverages or food. As long as I'm pretty sure the spider is not dangerously venomous, I'll pick it out and sip away. I'd probably be more upset over the death of the spider than of my tea being soiled; I was the little girl who would run to scoop up and release insects outside when the other students would start screaming and trying to stomp them.

Having my last bit of my Aiya Premium Gyokuro - nice tea but the brewing instructions on the back of the can make me shiver.Had a 09 7262 Shu sample in the morning. Thinking about Matcha and some Oolong later on.

I would probably put down my teapot, leave the kitchen, and not return until someone else moved the spider off the premises - it's an irrational but deepseated fear.

Den's Suimei gyokuro this morning. As I improve my brewing technique I'm enjoying this tea more and more. I have 2 more upscale gyokuros from O-Cha unopened and in the closet to move onto when I've finished "practicing" on the Suimei. I bought the shiboridashi set from O-Cha and I'm learning to use that. Having a water cooler (yuzamashi?) and appropriately sized cups is helping with the pre-heating process and with scaling the quantity of tea to the quantity of water.

Wellll, given I definately want to try eating spiders per travel channel shows ... I would still drink the tea. The mrs. would not join me however!!! Sooo, I will stick spiders in the spouts so I get more tea!!!!!!!!

Amazingly this has never happened to me, given this old stone house has more that its share of spiders, including occasional humungous wolf spiders.

Began the TD with the last session of Aoi asa from the O-C with the Mrs. Next up, a Ureshino Guricha from Xell, nicely veggie! Yum.

If the water was not too hot, would hope to quickly rescue spider and see if it can be revived, but unless I was brewing gyokuro, I'd presume poor spidey is cooked. So....if the tea was really precious and water was hot, would drink the tea anyway; if the tea was not so precious, and the water not so hot (a basic gyokuro brewed at 150, say, not really hot enough to sterilize things), I might dump that infusion.

I have long been the one in the house who was called to rescue and relocate spiders under threat of the death penalty from spiderphobic housemates.

Today, no spiders in my tea. I started out with a very nice session with Dens Shin-ryoku sencha, and then enjoyed some Silver Dragon from Wing Hop Fung, and am now trying to settle in to some serious paperwork (yuck!) with something in a puerh. Haven't decided sheng or shu yet. Hmmmm....

Funny story. Every morning I give my tea kettle a REALLY good rinse because I'm terrified there may be a spider in there. We have our share of venomous spiders down here, so this is uber important to me. I want to make dang sure the thing is spider-free. However, even as I do this, I never *actually* expect there to be a spider in there. I figure it is just one of my... quirks.

One morning, while rinsing out my kettle, a decent sized spider fell out. I hate when life verifies my fears.